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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Our perceptions are affected by what?
(a) Everything subjective in our lives, positive and negative.
(b) How we have been raised.
(c) Our own thoughts.
(d) Our ignorance.

2. What is the third truth?
(a) The cessation of creating suffering by thinking about what we are doing.
(b) The cessation of creating suffering by ignoring what we are doing.
(c) The cessation of creating suffering by changing what we are doing.
(d) The cessation of creating suffering by stopping what we are doing.

3. To whom does the author suggest going and showing your pain?
(a) The Buddha.
(b) Your parent.
(c) Yourself.
(d) God.

4. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) Someone had come to save him.
(b) He understood how to alleviate suffering.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) He was tired of sitting.

5. In our consciousness we have ___________________ seeds, or roots that we can identify with mindfulness.
(a) Wholesome or unwholesome.
(b) Weak seeds.
(c) Many seeds.
(d) Few seed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

2. What does the author believe is perhaps responsible for much of our pain?

3. Recognition of peace and joy, that well-being is possible, is which turning?

4. How should we treat our suffering?

5. At what age could Buddha do what he wanted "without going against the path," or practice the "action of non-action," stage of realization that must take place from within?

(see the answer key)

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